Load times are slightly reduced by some modchips and some softmod loading techniques. However the loading time should not be siginficantly increased such that you'd notice a massive difference. Most people only notice that FMV sequences are stuttered.

The type of media you use is somewhat important in the speed that the Wii can read. I tried some DVD+RW on my Wiikey2 and noticed the speeds were a lot slower and the drive made lots of seek noises as it struggled to read in data. If you are also getting this symptom then looks towards good quality DVD-R media such as Verbatim.

Of course you could always ditch disc loading and go USB like mostly everyone else as that offers the ultimate speed of transfer.

I can tell you I had an old D2PRO8 chip for a long time, and I noticed a very slight slow down, which you soon forget about after awhile. The biggest issue I had with this chip, was random DVD read errors and it would cause problems with the GECKO usb system. Jump forward, installed a Wode, couldnt be happier.

So I again steal from Favs and say
Get a wode :P

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